Minutes

I laugh when I think of all the time I’ve leisurely passed in my life. As a parent, a full-time employee, a self-driven ‘student’ building my skills to launch my own business, I’ve never done more in a day, week, or month than I am doing now.  Every day I am left with more I wish to tackle. 

Where was this drive when I had an open horizon of weekends stretched before me? 

I am in a season of inspiration and purpose. For several years now, I have searched for my next.  Entertained recruitments, applied for positions that seem like the right fit, interviewed, frantically searched LinkedIn at the end of a particularly frustrating workday. It has felt purposeless for a while. Yet now, I see that it was part of my path. Knowing what I didn’t want has shown me what I do want.

Past Learnings

Rather than seeing years past as wasted time not fulfilling my purpose, I celebrate that it has given me time to build confidence, expertise and learn the art of finding opportunity in all work.  

At just under forty, I am asking where I want to be in my career and family life when I turn fifty, and what are some steps I can take today that get me there. I am looking outside my employer for growth opportunities and inside my employer for opportunities that align with my career's arch rather than this moment of my career.  I am thinking outside of the bounds of traditional corporate ladders, paths of growth, and charting my own course. I am challenging myself to work with what I have got and am thinking more expansively than ever.

Your Charge

Yes, the world is in upheaval and drastically changing daily at this point. I believe we can maintain an awareness of reality and imagine more for ourselves. There are no limits to what your mind can imagine. Think outside the boundaries you feel, the restriction we are all literally living. Look past tomorrow to your future two, five, ten years down the road. How does THAT feel?

Spend your horizon of empty minutes right now, imagining the fullness of life you want. Know that the rejections you experience now are just the narrowing of your path to your purpose. Eventually, the time for concrete steps will come. You will be completely fulfilled, energized to tackle every task, yet squeezing your life’s purpose between the work that pays the bills, the precious kiddos that give you joy, and the sleep that we all need to function moderately.